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Cable news channel sorry for racially insensitive graphic

April 28, 2017 12:00 am • Last Updated: April 28, 2017 10:58 pm

BOSTON (AP) — A cable news station has apologized for accompanying a story on police stops of minorities with a graphic that included the term "colored people."

New England Cable News used the graphic Wednesday to go with a story based on a review by The Associated Press of the rate at which minorities in Boston are subjected to police stops.

The NBC-owned outlet apologized after viewers complained. In a statement Friday, NECN said the language that accidentally appeared in the graphic was "highly inappropriate" and it regretted the error.

The station said as soon as producers became aware of the graphic, it was taken off the air and corrected.

The Associated Press review found 71 percent of police-civilian encounters from 2015 through early 2016 involved persons of color, while whites comprised about 22 percent.

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